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Originally Posted by ronny7
I'm asking this for a friend as I don't know much about switches/routers. He bought a switch off ebay this one to be exact, he bought it it thinking it was a router. He's on NTL and this is basically what he wants Modem -> Router -> PS2+Computer. I've done a bit of research and seen that normally a router goes into a switch then into whatever you want e.g a computer. Now his is question : Can he have it like this ; Modem -> Switch -> PS2+Computer? Thanks in advance.
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No. You need to do what's called NAT (Network Address Translation). NTL only give you one public IP address, but you need to make a number of hosts "appear" as this address to the outside world.
Pretty much any "broadband router" available at well-known stores will do the job; however note that some are a lot better than others. I'm not that well up on what's good or not in the home market any more as I got narked off with them all and purchased enterprise-grade equipment
